Britain for Celts!

The Angles and Saxons came in from the North Sea. It's not like it was impossible for the Normans or Dutch to make the crossing of the English Channel.

And correct me if I'm wrong, the Britonic kingdoms, if we can give them that much status, never had much of a navy to guard that moat.
 
And correct me if I'm wrong, the Britonic kingdoms, if we can give them that much status, never had much of a navy to guard that moat.

The only structures that were used to protect against the mainlanders were a series of fortresses around Kent and East Angolia constructed in Roman times. These went into disrepair after Honorious left Britain.
 
Of course not. I don't disagree with you.

Bad combination.

Immortalimpi said:
The only structures that were used to protect against the mainlanders were a series of fortresses around Kent and East Angolia constructed in Roman times. These went into disrepair after Honorious left Britain.

Would those forts on the Saxon Shore being maintained have been enough to do any good, or would the Saxons have just bypassed them?
 
Bad combination.



Would those forts on the Saxon Shore being maintained have been enough to do any good, or would the Saxons have just bypassed them?

The professional Roman soldiers whose responsibility was it to garrison the Saxon Shore forts were long gone after 410 AD leaving the demilitarized Britons to fend the Saxons off. Then again the Saxons could had just bypassed the fortifications and landed in either further south or north where there were less forts.
 
They were divided into hundreds of sub-kingdoms and spent more time fighting each other than the Germanic invaders. The Romano-British were pretty much pathetic when it came to fighting - it says a lot when the Germanic invaders poured in as soon as the Roman soldiers and administrators withdrew from the island and left the defenses to the locals. The Plague of Justinian just made the entire conquest a whole lot quicker.

No actually, the invaders had had their asses kicked and were pretty much confined to a few coastal enclaves by the time the Yellow Plague (Plague of Justinian) hit. The defeat at Badon Hill was catastrophic for the invaders and archaeology has detected signs of a rollback of Anglo-Saxon settlement in the decades following it, indicating that the Britons were following up on their advantage following their great victory. The Yellow Plague, however, pretty much decimated the Britons and left the Anglo-Saxons alone (probably because the Anglo-Saxons weren't heavily involved in trade with mainland Europe or the Roman Empire at this period, while the Britons were).

If we can somehow keep the Yellow Plague out of Britain...or have it hit the Anglo-Saxons harder than it hit the British...the Celts might well push the invaders back into the sea.
 
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